“The eye altering, alters all.”

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

“It is for the legislature to alter the law if Parliament in its wisdom thinks an alteration desirable.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, politician and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

“Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.”
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.

Ovid Metamorphoses

“No differeance without alterity, no alterity without singularity, no singularity without here-now.”

Jacques Derrida book Specters of Marx

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

“People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

“Tragedy alters everything.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale